Nonsingular CS-rings coincide with tight PP rings. (Q1770518)

As a consequence of a much more general result about modules, the authors prove what is stated in the title, namely that a ring \(R\) is right nonsingular right CS if and only if it is right PP and right tight (where to say that \(R\) is right tight means that every finitely-generated submodule of the injective hull of \(R_R\) embeds in \(R\)). The paper then considers the problem of determining, for a positive integer \(n\), which rings \(R\) have the property that the free right \(R\)-module \(R^{(n)}\) is CS (equivalently the matrix ring \(M_n(R)\) is right CS). Several general results are proved, but the following particular case answers an open question: If \(R\) is an integral domain then \(R^{(2)}\) is right CS if and only if \(R\) is a right 2-hereditary right and left Ore domain (and these conditions are right-left symmetric).